MORE CONVICTIONS DROPPED IN THE L.A. POLICE SCANDEL

In the latest aftershock from a police scandal that has shaken Los
Angeles, a judge yesterday dismissed 10 drug and weapons convictions
because they were tainted by corruption. That brought to 22 the number
of cases thrown out because of police misconduct.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who sought the
dismissals, said his office probably will seek reversal of another two
to three dozen cases contaminated by false testimony and the planting
of evidence.

The scandal, the worst for LAPD in decades, has centered on an
anti-gang unit in the LAPD's Rampart Division. Twenty officers have
either resigned or been suspended.